Staff Machine Learning Engineer (TLM), Driver Understanding and Evaluation
Core
Build and operate scalable ML systems, simulation workflows, and evaluation tools to improve the realism of autonomous vehicle simulations using foundation models.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Engineering)
Builds
Ultra-realistic AV simulations and evaluation systems for the Waymo Driver
Domain
Autonomous driving, simulation, foundation models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
People management, experimental design, metric development, large model training/evaluation, research-to-production integration
Preferred skills
Applied Deep Learning, complex production problem solving, data analysis
Technologies
Foundation models, large models, simulation environments
Responsibilities
Design experiments to push frontiers of AV simulations, develop metrics for simulated world realism, train and evaluate large models, integrate models into simulators, hire research engineers
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with people management